ISCOWA is an international, non-profit organization which was formed in 1992 to promote and coordinate the exchange of information regarding the environmental and technical aspects of construction with industrial by-products. Industrial by-products include residues from industrial processes, such as flue gas desulphurisation sludge, metallurgical slags, power plant, and municipal and hazardous waste incinerator fly ashes, bottom ashes, foundry sand, blasting grit, mine tailings, as well as demolition wastes, soils contaminated by industrial activities, and stabilized or treated residues and soils, etc. ISCOWA members are involved with the utilization of these alternative materials in construction applications, such as fill, roadbase, cement, concrete, ceramic products, roofing materials, etc..

Created: May 2012.

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General information on ISCOWA

The objectives and organization of ISCOWA are described formally in the Society Statutes of ISCOWA.

For more recent information about ISCOWA and its members, please look at our homepage at http://www.iscowa.org.

Waste Management
Members of ISCOWA can get a fair good discount on the subscription price of Pergamon's Journal "Waste Management". More information on current subscription rates can be obtained from our secretariat.

Conferences

Conferences

WASCON is the International Conference on the Environmental and Technical Implications of Construction with Alternative Materials. It is organised every three years. Next WASCON will be in 2012, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

May 30 - June 1, 2012
WASCON 2012 has been held in Gothenburg, Sweden.

June 3 - 5, 2009
WASCON 2009 has been held in Lyon, France.

May 31 - June 2, 2006
WASCON 2006 has been held in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.

June 4-6, 2003
WASCON 2003. Waste Materials in Construction, San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain. Has been organised by INASMET. A CD-rom with papers presented at the conference and much more information can be ordered from ISCOWA for only € 50. Click here for more information.

Proceedings of previous WASCON conferences can now be ordered from ISCOWA for discount prices. Please click here.

• WASCON 2000, the 4th International Conference on the Science and Engineering of Recycling for Environmental Protection has been held 31 May - 2 June 2000 in Harrogate, UK. It was organised by the Civil Engineering Materials Unit (CEMU) at the School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds and ISCOWA. Take a look at the programme and abstract of papers that have been presented at the conference!.
  The proceedings of Wascon 2000 have been published by Elsevier Science in Elsevier's Waste Management series, Volume I.

  CD-rom with papers of WASCON 2000. Papers presented at WASCON 2000 and the ISCOWA workshop at SB 2000 are now available on CD-rom as well. Click here for more information.

• The Proceedings of WASCON '97 have been published in Elsevier's studies in Environmental Science, nr. 71. The results of international projects (supported by EC DGXII SMT), which were discussed in the workshop "Harmonisation of Leaching test procedures" have been published in Elseviers Studies in Environmental Science (issue NR. 70). You can take a look at the synopsis of WASCON 1997 or the Conference Programme of Wascon '97. Selected papers of Wascon '97 have been published in a special issue of Pergamon's "Waste Management"; Volume (issue): 20 (2-3) 2000. For ISCOWA's members a special reduced subscription price applies.

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A request for specific information on ISCOWA can be mailed to our secretariat.